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20 Winter-Inspired Service-Learning Project Ideas for High School Students

Experiential Learning Depot

Toy Repair Workshop Students partner with a community center or thrift store to repair and refurbish old toys, then donate them to children’s organizations or shelters. Holiday Fundraiser for Local Causes Plan a holiday-themed fundraising event with proceeds supporting a local charity or cause.

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Getting creative: How higher ed is finding solutions to post-pandemic problems

University Business

While fundraising is a time-tested revenue stream, schools less endowed with wealthy donors are Coming up with creative new revenue-generating ideas. Unity College in Maine, for example, is instating public workshops and offering customized workforce training for businesses.

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Supporting Your Social Media Manager in an Impossible Job

Campus Sonar

On the flip side, they also have moments of pure joy when they make a valuable connection with their audience through content or conversation, when they can tie their work to an enrolled student or fundraising goal met, and when they gather with industry colleagues at professional events.

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21 Experiential Fall Learning Activities for High School Students

Experiential Learning Depot

Fall Fundraiser Project My students LOVE fundraisers. If that's not enough of a reason to have them plan, coordinate, and host their own fundraisers, how about this? Planning fundraisers is an incredible skill-builder and community-builder. Fall is a favorite time to have my students plan and lead fundraisers.

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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Confessions of a Community College Dean

What inspires these grim thoughts is Kimball and Iler’s richly researched, provocative and pivotally important history of college endowments, campus fundraising campaigns, university finances, institutional spending and student debt. Invite neighboring faculty and graduate students to participate in campus workshops.

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President’s Corner: Why a strategic “pathway” is better than a plan

University Business

Alumni, trusted donors and friends of the college have placed so much confidence in his leadership that the Pennsylvania-based liberal arts college is coming off a record-breaking $77 million year of fundraising.

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7 Profound Benefits of Education Through Travel?

Experiential Learning Depot

You can also ask that your children help plan the travel experience and that they fundraise for trips. Click the links below to learn more: ​Coaching Digital Courses Group Workshops Workshop Series Join our experiential learning Facebook group! ​ Let's work together!